Improvement in clothes-wringers



4UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HAMILTON E. SMITH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO MARY JANE SMITH, OFSAMEA PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT lN CLOTHES-WRIhlGERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,521, dated June 4,1872; antedated May 20, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAMILTON E. SMITH, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Olothes-Wringer;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to makeand use the same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawing formingpart of this specication, in which drawing- Figure l represents alongitudinal section of this invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectionof the same. Fig. '3 is an end view of the same.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a clothes-wringen in which a loose elasticroller is used in combination with a series of guide andpressingrollers, all or some of which are geared together so as toimpart to the clothes a positive motion through the wringer. Myimprovement consists in the arrangement of radius bars suspended fromthe shafts of the geared pressing-rollers, and forming the bearings forthe shaft -of the intermediate cogwheel, in combination with saidpressing-rollers and Withthe loose elastic roller, and with 'set-screwsacting on the boxes of one or more of the pressing-rollers in such amanner that the pressing-rollers can be adjusted toward and from theloose elastic roller without disturbing-the correct action of thegear-wheels. My improvement consists also in the Aarrangement of twoadjustable guide-rollers in combination with the geared pressing-rollersand the loose elastic roller in such manner that the position oftheloose elastic roller in relalion to the geared pressing-rollers can becontrolled with the greatest accuracy, and thereby the correct operationof the wringer is insured.

In the drawing, the letter A designates a frame, which forms the guidesfor the axleboxes c c of the pressing-rollers B B. Thesepressing-rollers are mounted on shafts b b', and they are situated onopposite sides of thc loose elastic roller O. The journal-boxes c of thelower pressing-roller B are stationary, but the boxes a of the upperpressing-roller B are fitted into guide slots in the frame A, and theyare exposed to the action of setscrews c, so that the roller B can beset to- Ward or from the roller B,land the elastic roller O can becompressed between the rollers B B with more or less force. On theshafts b b' of the pressing-rollers B B are mounted cog-wheels dd',which are geared together by an intermediate cog-wheel, e, so `that thetwo pressing-rollers will revolve in thc same direction. The arbor ofthe intermediate cog-wheel e has its bearings in radius-bars f j", whichswing on the shafts b b',

so that when the rollers B B are moved toward or from each other thecog-wheel e will always preserve the correct relation toward thecog-Wheels d d. On the opposite sides of the elastic roller O aresituated two guiderollers, E E', the shafts or gudgeons of which havetheir bearings in boxes g g', (best seen in Fig. 2.) These boxes aretted into guideslots h h in the frame A, and they are subjected to theaction of set-screws it, so that the guide-rollers can be moved towardand om the elastic roller. Beneath the set-screwsz' i are placed elasticpads j j to render the guide-rollers yielding. By means of theadjustable guide-rollers E E the elastic roller O can be held exactlybetween the pressing-rollers B B and its correct position can bepreserved at all times.

This wringing-machine is simple in its construction, and it produces thedesired effect Without injuringthe clothespassed through it.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The radius-bars f f', suspended from the axles of thepressing-rollers, and forming the bearing for the arbor of theintermediate cog-wheel e, in combination with the adjustable journal-boxes af, pressing-rollers B B', and loo'se elastic roller O, allconstructed and operating substantially in the manner herein shown anddescribed.

2. The adj nstable guide-rollers E E', in conibination with the looseelastic roller O and with the geared pressing-rollers B B, substantiallyas set fort-h.

This specification signed by me this 2d day of October, 1871.

HAMILTON E. SMITH.

Vitnesses W. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER.

